Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

When I drive to the lupins and see them all spread out as far as eye can reach in perfect beauty of colour and scent and bathed in the mild August sunshine, I feel I must send for somebody to come and look at them with me, and talk about them to me, and share in the pleasure; and when I run over the list of my friends and try to find one who would enjoy them, I am frightened once more at the solitariness in which we each of us live.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Said
  • Same

• Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Why
  • Son
  • Regret

• You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Politics

• Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Real
  • Story
  • Where

• The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Age
  • Yourself
  • Curiosity

• Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Great
  • City
  • New York

• Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Vision
  • Animal
  • Human

• To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Meaningful

• Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Place
  • Matters

• If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Respect
  • Never
  • Confidence

• I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Surprised
  • How
  • Depth

• If you real from the heart, you real from the heart. That ain't got nothing to do with no sex or gender.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Sex

• You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Play
  • Yourself

• The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Coin

• How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Think
  • Present

• White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Learning
  • Older
  • Handle life

• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Work
  • Money
  • Future

• I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Think
  • Society
  • Better

• Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Age
  • Dying
  • Choose

• When I drive to the lupins and see them all spread out as far as eye can reach in perfect beauty of colour and scent and bathed in the mild August sunshine, I feel I must send for somebody to come and look at them with me, and talk about them to me, and share in the pleasure; and when I run over the list of my friends and try to find one who would enjoy them, I am frightened once more at the solitariness in which we each of us live.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Friends
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty